Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-07-22
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

Lansing is hornf for natural gas.
Bears are unusually numerous in North
crn Michigan.
y large fruit evaporator is being built
at Vernon ,uile
The whortleberry crop in this state is
sim ly enormous.
Michigan wheat crop is 6OOOOOO bushels
less than la year.
Ezra d. Wilson, a well known resident
of berr G county, is dead
Crop in the northern part of the lower
I euinsula are unprecedented.
Charlie, Davis of Sumpter township, has
received back pension Of $340).
Two hundred miners at the Winthrop
ynine near lshpeming, are on a strike.
The supreme court of the district of
Columbia grants j. z. Angney another
trial.
State encampment of Knights Of the
Maccabees at Grand Rapids August 9, 10
and II.
The Michigan knitting company will be
gin operations in Mason in the near
future
The Michigan single manufacturers
association will meet in Grand Rapids
July ~
Work upon the iron bridge across the
Huron river at Jacksonville has been com
menccd.
The postmaster at Ann Arbor denies
that the free delivery ,ystem in that town
is a failure
The Nil ol, q Shepard Co, of Battle
Greek, shipped 30 engines and 10 separat-
ors last week
Herman F. Rodiger, a well known bust
ness man of Kalamazoo, has joined the
''sileut majority"
The medical staff of Harper hospital
favor the establishment, of a university
clinic in Detroit
Owosso has the natural gas fever, and a
company will be organized to search for
the ''illuminator"
The Commercial and Peoples savings
a capital of 100000.
The annual encampment of the South
western Association q. a. II. will be held
in Adrian August 81
A whole block Of buildings in Cedar
Springs was destroyed by fire the other
morning. Loss, $4,000
July 20 the farmers Of Wayne, Oakland
Washtenaw and Livingston counties will
picnic at Whitmore Lake.
Officials of the geological survey are
little dubious about the reported gold
discovery near Ishpeming.
William Carl, for - years conductor OF
a gravel train, was killed at the gravel pit
near Hillsdale the other day.
NVork ho- kaa,
ing actively pushed on the Grand Rapids
branch OF the ID. l.. 4 n. road.
Thomas Mctiraw, the prospector recent
ly burned alive by the Apaches in northern
Mexico, formerly lived in Jackson.
The body of Mrs. Potter, the elderly
lady who wandered into the woods from
Marette has been found half mile from
her home
Capt. II. w. Thompson of the steam
large Minnesota, one OF the oldest navi
gators in the west, was drowned at Esca.
naba few days ago
The salt ASSOCIATION just completed by
s. W Tyler Il Son signing the agreement
will now practically control the entire
product Of the state.
young son Of Jack Vibber living near
other day. II is thought he was killed 10y
being thrown from horse.
Gov. Luce has committed the sentence
OF VIM. Devine who was sentenced to
Jackson for life for arson, to eight years
from the date OF the sentence.
Saginaw City business men are pushing
n project to connect the Flint a. Pere
Marquette and the Michigan Central rail
roads by four mile salt track
John Friech, who lives six miles from
Reed City, was riding mower in his hay
field, when his team ran away, breaking
his thigh, one arm and three ribs.
Kalamazoo river channel will he broad
ened to 100 feet deepened and other
changes made to prevent disastrous eff
fscts from floods to the celery farms.